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Golfman76 - Commies revolt, U.S. disintegrates
1929-1933: Andrew Mellon/James Watson (Republican)
1928: Al Smith/Dan Moody (Democratic)
1933: Millard Tydings/David Walsh (Democratic)
1932: Floyd Olson/John L. Lewis (Progressive-Farmer-Labor), James Watson/Guy D. Goff (Republican)
1933-1934: Hugh Johnson/VACANT (Military)
1934: National Emergency Council
Herbert Hoover’s decision not to run for the presidency caused the Republican field for 1928 to be wide open. Calvin Coolidge made clear that he would not run for another term ruled out that possibility. The main four candidates were Charles Curtis, James Watson, George Norris and Frank Lowden. After ten inconclusive ballots, a compromise candidate was needed. Andrew Mellon agreed to be the compromise, and on the twelfth ballot, Andrew Mellon became the Republican nominee.
Mellon’s 1928 campaign was based on his experience as treasury secretary, talking about how he caused the prosperity and how he would turn the roaring twenties into the roaring thirties. Al Smith’s Catholicism hurt him in many parts of the midwest. On election day, Mellon won 41 out of 47 states.
Then, all went wrong for the president who had hoped to be the man would continue the prosperity. The great depression started on October 29th, 1929, “Black Tuesday” as it was called, when the stock market crashed. Mellon tried to stop it, but his hard-right economic beliefs got in the way. The Smoot-Hawley tariff just made it worse.
By 1932, even a pair of pants could win against Mellon. Starvation became prevalent in the more poor parts of the country, millions of people were out of work and Mellon did nothing to stop it, at least in the average American’s eyes. Mellon hated this job, and he refused to run for a second term. The 1932 Democratic convention was a threeway between Tydings, Wheeler and Smith. Millard Tydings convinced Smith to drop out and endorse him, and in return, Smith would pick Tydings’s delegate. This worked, and Tydings became the nominee, and Smith chose one of his allies: Massachusetts Senator David Walsh.
The left-wing, at first, was divided in three: Burton Wheeler as a Progressive, John L. Lewis as a Laborite and Norman Thomas as a socialist. Wheeler and Lewis decided that dividing the vote was stupid and decided to create their own party: Progressive Labor. Then they formed an alliance with Minnesota’s Farmer Labor party and formed the Progressive Farmer Labor Party. The Socialists weren’t part of the deal as PFL insiders thought it was bad PR to have a deal with the Socialists, but the Socialists endorsed them anyway. Tydings won, as expected.
Tydings was a Conservative Democrat, and as such was just Mellon but more moderate. Tydings’s approval rating dropped faster than my grades, and Americans were turning to more radical parties, whether they be left or right. As America’s suffering was prolonged, many had had enough. On December 18th, 1933, a group of 1000 communists managed to attack the White House, and killed both Tydings and Walsh. However, the military soon rushed in, and the communists were either arrested or killed. General Hugh Johnson declared himself as the President of the United States. However, many thought that Johnson was an illegitimate president, and this made Americans more angry. On January 2nd, 1934, Governor Upton Sinclair declared that California was now a separate entity from the United States. Hugh Johnson tried to take California back, but mutinies and US troops that were willing to fire on civilians hampered on the cause. Hugh Johnson’s mental health became weaker ever since California had seceded, and eventually other US generals declared him unfit for office based on a fit he threw in private, and formed the National Emergency Council. This was the final straw, and many US states seceded after that.
1928: Al Smith/Dan Moody (Democratic)
1933: Millard Tydings/David Walsh (Democratic)
1932: Floyd Olson/John L. Lewis (Progressive-Farmer-Labor), James Watson/Guy D. Goff (Republican)
1933-1934: Hugh Johnson/VACANT (Military)
1934: National Emergency Council
Herbert Hoover’s decision not to run for the presidency caused the Republican field for 1928 to be wide open. Calvin Coolidge made clear that he would not run for another term ruled out that possibility. The main four candidates were Charles Curtis, James Watson, George Norris and Frank Lowden. After ten inconclusive ballots, a compromise candidate was needed. Andrew Mellon agreed to be the compromise, and on the twelfth ballot, Andrew Mellon became the Republican nominee.
Mellon’s 1928 campaign was based on his experience as treasury secretary, talking about how he caused the prosperity and how he would turn the roaring twenties into the roaring thirties. Al Smith’s Catholicism hurt him in many parts of the midwest. On election day, Mellon won 41 out of 47 states.
Then, all went wrong for the president who had hoped to be the man would continue the prosperity. The great depression started on October 29th, 1929, “Black Tuesday” as it was called, when the stock market crashed. Mellon tried to stop it, but his hard-right economic beliefs got in the way. The Smoot-Hawley tariff just made it worse.
By 1932, even a pair of pants could win against Mellon. Starvation became prevalent in the more poor parts of the country, millions of people were out of work and Mellon did nothing to stop it, at least in the average American’s eyes. Mellon hated this job, and he refused to run for a second term. The 1932 Democratic convention was a threeway between Tydings, Wheeler and Smith. Millard Tydings convinced Smith to drop out and endorse him, and in return, Smith would pick Tydings’s delegate. This worked, and Tydings became the nominee, and Smith chose one of his allies: Massachusetts Senator David Walsh.
The left-wing, at first, was divided in three: Burton Wheeler as a Progressive, John L. Lewis as a Laborite and Norman Thomas as a socialist. Wheeler and Lewis decided that dividing the vote was stupid and decided to create their own party: Progressive Labor. Then they formed an alliance with Minnesota’s Farmer Labor party and formed the Progressive Farmer Labor Party. The Socialists weren’t part of the deal as PFL insiders thought it was bad PR to have a deal with the Socialists, but the Socialists endorsed them anyway. Tydings won, as expected.
Tydings was a Conservative Democrat, and as such was just Mellon but more moderate. Tydings’s approval rating dropped faster than my grades, and Americans were turning to more radical parties, whether they be left or right. As America’s suffering was prolonged, many had had enough. On December 18th, 1933, a group of 1000 communists managed to attack the White House, and killed both Tydings and Walsh. However, the military soon rushed in, and the communists were either arrested or killed. General Hugh Johnson declared himself as the President of the United States. However, many thought that Johnson was an illegitimate president, and this made Americans more angry. On January 2nd, 1934, Governor Upton Sinclair declared that California was now a separate entity from the United States. Hugh Johnson tried to take California back, but mutinies and US troops that were willing to fire on civilians hampered on the cause. Hugh Johnson’s mental health became weaker ever since California had seceded, and eventually other US generals declared him unfit for office based on a fit he threw in private, and formed the National Emergency Council. This was the final straw, and many US states seceded after that.
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